Global Partnership for Education – GPE Secretariat
“Over the last decade and a half, there has been historic progress in getting more girls into school overall. In many countries, primary school girls are for the first time being educated at or near parity with boys. Still, girls remain far less likely than boys to enroll in school. Of the estimated 124 million children out of school, 63 million are girls…So what will it take to close those large and troubling gaps? The short answer is that it’s a complex challenge, requiring many different critical interventions…but what we know works: a true commitment to educating girls supported by persistent and concrete actions to fulfill that commitment.”(more)